![]() ![]() In flag terminology, a canton is the upper left (hoist) quarter of a flag. Togo is like Chile in having a canton with a star, and is the only one in this group that has that feature. Togo, like Puerto Rico and Cuba, has five stripes in a three dark and two light pattern (only those countries share the colors red, white, and blue). São Tomé and Príncipe has two distinguishing characteristics: a red triangle and two black stars. But, if you have studied heraldry, you know that the color red is called "gules" and it does start with the letter "g." That, however, is too clever by half and I have probably confused you even further. Tsk, it would be so much easier for anglophones if they did. Now, in a very perverse mnemonic: Guinea and Guinea-Bissau both start with the letter "G" but they do NOT have green (also beginning with "g") on their hoist side. Guinea-Bissau has red on the hoist side and a black star. Ghana has a black star in the central stripe and Bolivia has a coat of arms in the central stripe.īenin and Guinea-Bissau have similar structural design, with a vertical stripe on the hoist side and two horizontal stripes next to it.īenin has green on the hoist side and no star. Ghana and Bolivia have the same pattern of horizontal stripes: red, yellow, green (top to bottom). Lithuania is the only one with a (horizontal) green stripe in the middle. Of course you don't want to confuse it with its larger neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo which has a diagonal but the flag is in red, blue, and yellow and has a star. Republic of the Congo is the only one with a diagonal, so that makes it stand out. Senegal looks like Mali but it has a green star in the central yellow stripe.Ĭameroon looks like Senegal but it switches the red and yellow and has a yellow star in the central red stripe. (I have a flag of Guinea, btw, in my collection, one of the random ones I came across-and yes, it took me a while to be sure which flag I had in my hands). So here we go with flags in red, green, and yellow. I felt rather bad about Mali's flag last week without any clues about how to distinguish it from, oh, say, Guinea's. ![]()
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